Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-18 Thread Aaron Morton
Have a read about JVM heap sizing here http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableThresholds If you let people create keyspaces with a mouse click you will soon run out of memory. I use Cassandra to provide a self service "storage service" at my organisation. All virtual databases operate in the

Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-16 Thread indika kumara
Hi Stu, In our app, we would like to offer cassandra 'as-is' to tenants. It that case, each tenant should be able to create Keyspaces as needed. Based on the authorization, I expect to implement it. In my view, the implementation options are as follows. 1) The name of a keyspace would be 'the ac

Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-07 Thread indika kumara
Hi Stu, I highly appreciate your help. First, I would like to get familiar with the Cassandra, especially the current work on mult-tenancy and security. Is there any resource other than the wiki that can be used to learn about the internals of the Cassandra. I would appreciate your suggestions o

Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-06 Thread Stu Hood
> (1) has the problem of multiple memtables (a large amount just isn't viable There are some very straightforward solutions to this particular problem: I wouldn't rule out running with a very large number of keyspace/columnfamilies given some minor changes. As Brandon said, some of the folks that

Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-06 Thread indika kumara
Thank you very much Brandon! On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Brandon Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:33 PM, indika kumara >wrote: > > > Hi Brandon, > > > > I would like you feedback on my two ideas for implementing mufti tenancy > > with the existing implementation. Would those be

Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-06 Thread Brandon Williams
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:33 PM, indika kumara wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > I would like you feedback on my two ideas for implementing mufti tenancy > with the existing implementation. Would those be possible to implement? > > Thanks, > > Indika > > > Two vague ideas: (1) qualified keyspaces (by

Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-06 Thread indika kumara
Hi Brandon, I would like you feedback on my two ideas for implementing mufti tenancy with the existing implementation. Would those be possible to implement? Thanks, Indika > Two vague ideas: (1) qualified keyspaces (by the tenet domain) (2) multiple Cassandra storage configurations in a si

Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-06 Thread indika kumara
Thank very much Brandon for your reply. I would like to investigate more on this. I will ask for your suggestions as needed. Thanks, Indika On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Brandon Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:39 AM, indika kumara wrote: > > > *Multi-tenancy* > > > > I noticed

Re: Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-06 Thread Brandon Williams
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:39 AM, indika kumara wrote: > *Multi-tenancy* > > I noticed that you are implementing multi-tenancy [1]. Could you please > guess that how long it would take to finish to the remaining work? I would > like to contribute to that. However, I am a newbie to the Cassandra.

Multi-tenancy, and authentication and authorization

2011-01-06 Thread indika kumara
Hi all, I am an Apache committer (Apache Synapse ESB, WS All) and working for an organization that develops open-source products. We are interesting in using the Cassandra in our products. We need multi-tenancy support as well as a pluggable authentication and authorization architecture in the Ca